Chicago couple arrested after setting a car on fire and reporting it missing

Riverside police arrested two Chicago residents on Nov. 21 for a 2023 arson attack in the city.

On May 25, 2023, at approximately 11:04 p.m., police were dispatched to the corner of Selborne Road and Lindberg Road where they saw a car on fire. Officers ran the license plates and learned the car was registered in Mount Prospect. A resident in the 700 block of Selborne Road provided police with doorbell camera footage that showed a man parking the car around 9:13 p.m. before setting the driver’s front seat on fire and heading toward Lindberg at 9:18 p.m Road drove.

Later that day, police contacted the Chicago resident who owned the burned vehicle and said she had just reported the car stolen to Chicago police. The woman told Riverside police that she had parked the car outside her new home the night before, but discovered it was missing after returning from work, where she drove her other car. Riverside police said they “did not detect any concern” in the woman’s voice that her car was believed to have been stolen and was found in flames.

Police checked the license plates of the burned car and discovered that it had been caught on camera driving through Berwyn on the night of the arson, first at the intersection of Oak Park Avenue and Roosevelt Road at about 8:37 p.m. and twice at the intersection Harlem Avenue and 16th Street around 8:53 and 8:56 p.m., just 25 minutes before Riverside police spoke to the car owner.

In all three cases, the car was followed by a car of the same type that the woman said she drove to work; Police ran the license plates and discovered the vehicle was registered to a man from Chicago at the address the woman had listed as her new residence.

On May 31, a judge approved Riverside police’s search warrant for the burned car, but an agent with the Illinois State Fire Marshal’s Office found no accelerant that could have started the fire, but said it was Heet brand antifreeze had what is not possible to be recognized as an accelerant used to start car fires.

According to police, video footage showed the woman’s car, followed by the man’s car, traveling south from the intersection of Harlem Avenue and Cermak Avenue before passing Lalo’s on Harlem Avenue and heading east around 11 p.m turned onto 31st Street. At approximately 9:11 p.m., the man’s car, now followed by the woman’s car, was seen traveling north on Harlem Avenue and turning onto Lindberg Road. The man’s car stopped on Lindberg Road while the woman’s car continued west; The man’s car was then parked on Lindberg Road with its lights off until the lights came back on and the car left the scene at 9:19 p.m.

Riverside police spoke with a representative from Geico, where the woman purchased her car insurance, who said she changed her car policy on May 4, 2023.

Police had obtained search warrants for the woman’s phone records, which showed the woman called the man twice after speaking to police the night of the arson.

Riverside also obtained search warrants for the location records of both people’s phones, which showed that at the time of the arson, both devices were struck by cell towers near the intersection of Selborne and Lindberg streets before moving together toward the Chicago police station where the woman was had reported her car missing.

On July 10, 2023, Riverside Police invited the woman to the North Riverside Police Department to discuss the case, where she was arrested and her phone was confiscated. The next day after the woman’s release, they obtained a search warrant for the phone but were unable to unlock it.

After further investigation, Riverside police learned that the woman’s car had struck a pedestrian in a crosswalk in a hit-and-run accident in Chicago on the morning of May 25, 2023, the same day as the arson. Text records between the man and woman obtained by police show that on May 24, 2023, the woman sent the man an article about an arson in Chicago.

On November 21, 2024, Riverside police learned that the man was scheduled to appear in court in Chicago for an August arrest in the city. Police responded to the courthouse and arrested the man and woman who were there with him on arson charges. Both declined to answer police questions after being read their Miranda rights; Riverside police received a single arson charge for each of them that day.

These items were taken from Riverside Police Department reports from November 21 to 27 and Brookfield Police Department reports from November 25 to December 2; They represent some of the incidents to which the police responded. All individuals named in these reports have only been charged with a crime and their cases have not yet been adjudicated. We only report a suspect’s race when a serious crime has been committed, the suspect is still at large, and the police have provided us with a detailed physical description of the suspect while asking the public for help in making the arrest.

Chicago couple arrested after setting a car on fire and reporting it missing

ByAmelia Journalton

By Amelia Journalton

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